From 39243f0ea8efc572e3206b5f0fca12696a52308e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Blake Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 12:01:08 -0700 Subject: tests: avoid spurious failure on old kernel * tests/touch/no-dereference: Skip test if utimensat doesn't support symlinks. Reported by Bernhard Voelker. --- tests/touch/no-dereference | 13 +++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tests/touch/no-dereference b/tests/touch/no-dereference index 7adacc409..c1a6748b5 100755 --- a/tests/touch/no-dereference +++ b/tests/touch/no-dereference @@ -48,8 +48,17 @@ grep '^#define HAVE_LUTIMES' "$CONFIG_HEADER" > /dev/null || skip_test_ 'this system lacks the utimensat function' # Changing time of dangling symlink is okay. -touch -h dangling || fail=1 -test -f nowhere && fail=1 +# Skip the test if this fails, but the error text corresponds to +# ENOSYS (possible with old kernel but new glibc). +touch -h dangling 2> err +case $? in + 0) test -f nowhere && fail=1 + test -s err && fail=1;; + 1) grep 'Function not implemented' err \ + && skip_test_ 'this system lacks the utimensat function' + fail=1;; + *) fail=1;; +esac # Change the mtime of a symlink. touch -m -h -d 2009-10-10 link || fail=1 -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2